December 10, 2014

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 313

Welcome to issue 313 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information
about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from November 16 to December 6, 2014

Quotes of the Week

Dijkstra: How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity (in short: what mathematicians call "elegance") are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?

Dijkstra: Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.

monochrom: those who have learned from history are bound to helplessly watch other people repeat it.